Overshot or undershot wheel for propelling machinery



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OVERSHQT 0R UNDB No. 578,745.

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Patented Mar. 16, 1897.

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Patented Mar. 16, 1897.'

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UNITED STATES J Ol-IN IIIRAM IIIGHSMITH,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF CORNELIA, GEORGIA.

OVERSHOT 0R UNDERSHOT WHEEL FOR PROPELLING MACHINERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,745, dated March 16, 189'?.

Application filed April 24, 1896. Serial No. 588,864. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern/.-

Be it known that I, JOHN I-IIRAM HIGH- SMITH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Cornelia, in the county of I-Iabersham and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Overshot or Undershot Wheels for Propelling Machinery; and I do hereby declare the following' to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is an overshot Wheel for propelling machinery. It may, however, be also used as an undershot. This water-wheel is constructed of steel or iron, or both, may be taken to pieces, moved anywhere, and may be again put together for use by the use of bolts and nuts. 4

The wheel is very durable and of simple It is not more weighty than the old-fashioned wooden wheel.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of my wheel. Fig. 2 is asectional view. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the hub, the lower half of the wheel, and a small portion of the upper half, the balance being cut away. Fig. 4t is a perspective view showing a section of the rim and two of the buckets. Fig. 5 is a perspective View of one of the walls of the buckets.

My invention is described as follows:

A is the shaft. a are the hubs. b are the arms. c are the sections of the rim. d are the section-walls of the buckets, and e are the braces.

The shaft A is made of steel or iron or of iron with steel bearings. All the other parts may be made of iron, steel, or any other suitable material.

The hubs a are secured to the shaft in any substantial manner. The inner faces of the hubs are provided with ribs or stays a to supl port the arms.

The inner ends of the arms are shaped to lit and rest in the V-shaped recesses between the ribs a and are secured in such position by means of bolts and nuts a2.

To the outer and inner faces of the arms b are secured the sections c of the rim, which when put together form a perfect circle. Between the rim, when so formed, are secured by bolts and nuts the walls d, which form the of plane 3 with perforations 10, and at its lower part with perforations 1l. These walls d are then, by means of bolts and nuts, which pass through the perforations of the flanges Y 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and through like perforations in sections c, secured to the inner face of sections, and when so secured form a perfect circuit of buckets, the lower end of plane 3 being bolted to the upper edge of plane 3 of the lower wall. Thus plane 3 of the upper wall and plane 2 of the lower wall form the bottom of one bucket, while the upper plane l of the lower bucket and plane 2 and plane l of the upper wall form the walls of the bucket, and so on all the way around the wheel. (See y, Fig. 2.)

rlhe wheel is braced by cross-braces e, said braces having their inner ends secured to the inner faces of the hubs and to the inner faces of the arms near their outer ends.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v A water-wheel, consisting of the shaft A; hubs a, arms b, bolted to said hubs; sections c, secured to the inner faces of the arms b,- bucketwalls d, consisting of the planes 1, 2, 3 and perforated flanges 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, the planes 3, having perforations l0 and 1l, and riveted together forming a complete and continuous inner wall and bottoms, and outer walls for the buckets, the flanges secured to the inner faces of sections c, substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HIRAM IIIGHSMITH. 

